The Roman Empire fell in tragic-comedy;
gluttonous plutocrats demanding literal worship as “divine” until
critical mass among the people rejected such ridiculous subversion of
former Roman virtue. The most prolific Roman historian, Livy, witnessed Rome’s transition into dictatorial empire with Augustus Caesar as first emperor.

In his preface to address 700 years of Roman history:

“I have no doubt that the earliest origins and the
immediately succeeding period will give less delight to the majority of
readers who are hurrying to these recent times in which the might of a
most powerful people has long been destroying itself.

… I shall seek this additional reward for my labor (recounting all
Rome’s history) so that I may turn away from the contemplation of the
evils that our age has seen for so many years.” –The History of Rome, Preface

ISIS is a .01% creation to incite fear against all Muslims (here, here, here), but never ever ever ever ever does ISIS state what would bring down the governments of the US, UK, and Israel: the Emperor’s New Clothes obvious truth that We the People
would embrace and use to arrest our own would-be emperors: ongoing
unlawful wars, fundamental fraud to call debt as “money,” and continuous
corporate media lies.But you recognize this history as exactly what you’ve already learned, yes?To remind you further in just two minutes of reading:We were all born into a century of total deaths from government violence of over 230 million human beings.

The two “reasons” for war with Iran are as false
as the “reasons” for war with Iraq: Iran never threatened Israel, and
Iran’s nuclear energy and medicine programs are IAEA-verified as
completely safe and lawful.

Perhaps this famous quote makes better sense now:

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on
retentiveness.

When change is absolute there remains no being to improve
and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience
is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1.

SOLUTIONS: the .01% with corporate media
have suppressed solutions documented beginning with Benjamin Franklin
how government can abundantly operate without taxes: monetary and credit
reform allow the public to have near-instant prosperity: full-employment,
zero public deficits and debt, the best infrastructure we can imagine,
falling prices, and release of public TRILLIONS held in “rainy day”
accounts. Full documentation here: